Mark Jacobson

Mark Jacobson, a contributing editor at New York Magazine, is a frequent contributor to the Village Voice, National Geographic, Natural History, Men's Journal, Esquire, and other publications. His New York article "The Return of Super-Fly," a profile of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, was the basis for Ridley Scott's recent film American Gangster. Mark is the author of 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time, Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, Gojiro, and Everyone and No One. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.